Jeremy Cherfas

 #rabbit_quest #geohashing 20241004-W-AY6808* On foot* 41.886121, 12.444012* 4 October 2024* 420.9 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapAfter recent storms there were a few trees blocking my way, and I couldn’t get that close anyway.

Eat This Podcast latest episode: Crunch Time — Insects Are Not Going to Save Us

Dustin Crummett, executive director of The Insect Institute, tells me why he thinks the puffery about eating insects to save the planet is largely hot air inflating a bubble.

eatthispodcast.com/no-insect…

I find it odd that anyone who found the Gutenberg editor in WordPress “deeply frustrating “ would not switch to ClassicPress. Maybe they looked and decided it wasn’t for them; if so, I would love to know why.

I’ve long known that the sky is polarised, but today I discovered while waking along the beach that rainbows are too. I happened to tilt my head to one side and a rainbow that had been faint and short became much brighter and extended across more of the sky. Strange.

I wish there were some kind of tool that would do a diff between two audio files so I could string together all the ums and ers and I means I’ve cut out and send them to the person that others praise for being so eloquent and fluent.

• On foot* 55.169166, -6.777712* Tuesday 24 September 2024* 420.25 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMap I’ve been looking for baggable rabbits, but this graticulette is mostly sea, and even this one was out of reach except at low tide, which wasn’t for about another 6 hours.

Ayjay and lots of other good people wish Word would die in a fire. Me too.

Eat This Newsletter points the finger at

• alt-protein energetics: the sums don’t add up
• breastfeeding: formula looks “less like brain damage and more like a really bad kindergarten teacher”, and
• food allergies and intolerance: the immune system loses its mind.

buttondown.com/jeremyche…

“There are also tools to show me where my online images have been used so I can invoice people who use them without permission. But it’s a pain and I wish Flickr could do that with a click of a button. It might happen.“That would be a game changer, and maybe even profitable for Flickr on a small percentage. 

Is it possible, in my wildest dreams, that the latest XKCD from Randall was inspired by a recent episode of Eat This Podcast?

xkcd.com/2982/

www.eatthispodcast.com/water/

Twenty years ago today, I was impressed with WordPress, the new kid on my block. www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/gett…

It is still pretty impressive, if it gives you what you want.

A lot of Mark Nottingham’s post about improving feeds is plumbing and protocols I scarcely understand. The thing that disrupts my feed reading most is feeds that resend the latest 20 posts each time there’s something new. Might be related to doubled images. Whatever, I dislike it a lot.

• On bicycle* 41.861454, 12.464238* Thursday 22 August, 2024* 418.77 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapNot exactly exploring. Just happened to notice this Rabbit right by my usual route for a long bicycle ride, so I had to bag it on the way home.

• On foot* 41.88934, 12.46280 approx* Friday 16 August, 2024* N/A ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapBagged this on Friday, and it had been so long since the previous Rabbit I clear forgot to take the screenshot that enables me to post a day later. Or three days later.

Rain at last, and it smells … like victory.

Editing audio, you accumulate so much cruft it is amazing. Out-takes, duplicates, alternative mixes etc etc. You pretend you might come back to them. But you don’t. Eventually you decide to save only the final mix and the sound files it needs, and you spend about 90 minutes doing every podcast from 2014, and you reduce the size of that archive from 21.3GB to 9.1GB and that is a good thing.2015 can wait.

That blueprint is at siderea.dreamwidth.org/1824441.h… which brilliantly analyses what made the original Patreon so attractive and how it has declined. As someone still able to use charge-by-item and someone who uses the support of patrons to make my stuff available to all, I really appreciated the piece.

Robert Kingett’s heartfelt post about why he is leaving Patreon, coupled with my own attempts to streamline the support options for my own little endeavours, left me reminiscing about the original flattr and early Patreon itself. The blueprint for a replacement exists. Somebody, please build it.

Seven years ago I wrote a generally depressing piece about “science communication” and how little it seems to achieve. Someone please tell me how things have changed in the interim.

www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/scic…